Who are Solaris Biotech?

Solaris Biotech is a global leader in the design and manufacture of stirred tank bioreactors, fermenters, and tangential flow filtration (TFF) solutions, supporting bioprocesses from benchtop through to pilot and industrial-scale production.

Their platform is built around a clear principle: to deliver reliable, easy-to-use, and fully scalable bioprocess systems that translate seamlessly from lab to manufacturing.

Solaris offers a highly integrated bioprocess platform designed to support your process at every stage. Their approach is deliberately focused, centred on multi-use stirred tank bioreactors and fermenters, enabling consistent performance across all scales, from 200 mL through to 10,000 L. This platform-based philosophy simplifies scale-up, reduces process risk, and maintains a familiar user experience from initial development through to full production, giving users confidence as their process evolves.

Benchtop - At laboratory scale, our multi-use systems are fully autoclavable, making them ideally suited to research and early-stage development environments where flexibility and ease of use are essential.

High-Throughput - Our benchtop systems are equally well suited to high-throughput workflows, with the ability to operate multiple vessels in parallel, supporting up to 24 bioreactors from a single control interface, enabling consistent, data-rich experimentation and rapid process optimisation.

Pilot Scale - As processes develop, Solaris systems scale naturally into pilot and industrial stainless-steel platforms. These systems are designed for robust, long-term operation and are available with full CIP and SIP capability, ensuring efficient cleaning, sterilisation, and turnaround between runs.

Industrial Scale - For manufacturing environments, systems can be designed in line with cGMP requirements, including CFR21 compliance, with each installation tailored specifically to the customer’s process, facility, and regulatory needs.

A collaborative partnership between BPES and Solaris

In the UK, Solaris systems are supported exclusively by us, at BPES. We have been successfully developing and growing the Solaris presence for over ten years. During this time, we have supported a wide range of users, from academic research groups and early-stage start-ups through to established biotech and biopharma organisations operating at pilot and production scale.

With over 50 systems installed across the UK, BPES has experience across diverse applications, including recombinant protein production, enzymatic digestion, biosurfactants, CDMO processes, biochemical manufacturing, and much more.

Our role extends far beyond supplying equipment. Our team provides full installation and commissioning, user training, and ongoing technical support to ensure systems perform as expected from day one. Over the lifetime of each system, we continue to work closely with customers, offering guidance on process optimisation, contamination prevention, and efficient operation.

Preventative maintenance and servicing form a key part of this support, with regular system checks, calibration, and replacement of critical consumables such as O-rings, gaskets, and mechanical seals, ensuring long-term reliability and performance.

From initial system selection through to years of operation, Solaris Biotech and BPES together provide a complete and dependable solution for stirred tank bioprocessing. Rather than simply supplying equipment, the focus is on helping users build robust, scalable, and efficient processes with confidence at every stage.